Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 68

My child," she said to him, "When you are hungry eat some of these sweetmeats."

Who acts: child, you · What happens: say, be, eat · To what, where: prince, some · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 child	nmod:poss
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 child	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 child	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eat	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 eat	punct
11	When	when	SCONJ	_	14 hungry	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 hungry	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hungry	cop
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eat	advcl
15	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 eat	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sweetmeats	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 sweetmeats	det
19	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 some	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 eat	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	My child		prince		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	is	present	you			hungry property	tree rules
3	eat	present		some			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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